ALLIGATOR DANCE
ALLIGATOR DANCE
Up the miry river bank
Itinerant and grinning imitators
Dankly vowing poverty—uncanny
Instigators with shiny eyes expanding.
Dancing satirically, profanely preening
Commanding swords of the glades
Feeding on sacraments of daredevil visitors
Blades of ivory ground and sharpened.
Harkening the sound of digestible
Prisoners like pathological Friars
Detestably shredding the indifferent
Tithe of the almost dead, the devoted dead.
© Copyright 2024 Kenneth Boyd
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Where I live in Florida, alligators are 'dead' serious. But watch them closely. They sit on the sidelines, like the waiting room for ballroom dancers. When it's their turn they're fast--swinging their way to their prey. It's a dance, a dangerous dance.
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Written on January 15, 2024
Submitted by Boydsy on February 09, 2024
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| Scheme | XAXB BXAX XAXX X |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 481 |
| Words | 73 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 1 |
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